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Patinated but still tasty FE in VX490 flavour seen in Co. Down...

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I've a serious lust for these; the best bit is I spotted a silver VX490 in the same street about 15 years ago, so I reckon there's a serial Vauxhall licker in the vicinity.

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Look at that interior. Woof.

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But what's this, parked not far away?

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Mk2 1600E, in the best colour?

Oh, yes please.

Looked very clean - but I'd still take the big Vauxhall.

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I've been such a lazy spotter I haven't even uploaded any pics for ages but I've got to share this one. I thought this guy had balls of steel venturing onto the M40 in an A35.

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I looked it up and DVLA says 4948cc. Surely that's a typo and it should be 948?

No, there's a 5-litre Mustang V8 on a cut-down Lotus Elite chassis, gearbox and suspension crammed under there! It looks so standard yet has 10 times as much power as it did originally. Brilliant and I'd love to have seen the looks on the faces of the modern drivers he overtook.

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1 hour ago, quicksilver said:

I've been such a lazy spotter I haven't even uploaded any pics for ages but I've got to share this one. I thought this guy had balls of steel venturing onto the M40 in an A35.

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I looked it up and DVLA says 4948cc. Surely that's a typo and it should be 948?

No, there's a 5-litre Mustang V8 on a cut-down Lotus Elite chassis, gearbox and suspension crammed under there! It looks so standard yet has 10 times as much power as it did originally. Brilliant and I'd love to have seen the looks on the faces of the modern drivers he overtook.

That could be so much fun pissing off boy racers in their Corsas with horrible exhausts.

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1 hour ago, dave j said:

I saw this one while driving a couple weeks ago, but today I saw the Lada Samara parked up!

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Wow...Samara in any form is a bloody rare spot, but that looks to be a Juno based on the body kit and the year.  Can't quite make out the graphics to confirm or deny.

Bloody rare spot in any form though.

Quite liked my one, it drove far better than it had any right to, though even comparing to the Riva and Niva the build quality was absolutely shockingly poor.

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